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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The cheap helmet strategy imposed in the early 90s masked government pandering to the oil lobby. Fatuously they discriminated against a whole group of transport users in a bid to appease the Big Polluters - and we let this outrageous infringement of civil liberties 'through to the keeper'.

Unsurprisingly this abuse of civil liberties has lead to inequality in terms of congestion and health:

* we are the fattest nation on the planet, and;

* we continue to eat ourselves into early graves.

But today we are witnessing resentment re-emerging, and the realisation that the roads are for sharing.